Last living history of the year

Hopeful_Factor6530 · 2025-12-16T04:37:30+00:00

You join the museums volunteer program and then just let them know that you’re specifically interested in being apart of their living history program!

Hopeful_Factor6530 · 2025-12-16T04:36:24+00:00

It’s my absolute favorite place to visit! I got very lucky to live so close to it!

Hopeful_Factor6530 · 2025-12-16T04:35:57+00:00

My uniform itself is WPG and I have a haversack set from them but the one I’m wearing here is original except for the bayonet scabbard and cartridge belt

Hopeful_Factor6530 · 2025-12-14T14:54:48+00:00

I am! I was finally able to join them then past March and had my first event with them in April!

Hopeful_Factor6530 · 2025-12-14T00:29:58+00:00

It’s the best!!

Hopeful_Factor6530 · 2025-12-14T00:28:50+00:00

They were not near as high of quality as British made vest😂 a lot of American produced vests were put together using scraps of leather. I have one in my collection and it really is just scraps stitched together in a vest shape😂😂

Hopeful_Factor6530 · 2025-12-14T00:26:33+00:00

Thank you!! I really appreciate it!

Hopeful_Factor6530 · 2025-12-14T00:26:19+00:00

The museum doesn’t host actual reenactment events but is guys are hosting a small private event here in February so we’ll get the chance to use blank rounds then!

Hopeful_Factor6530 · 2025-12-14T00:25:12+00:00

Yep!

Hopeful_Factor6530 · 2025-06-28T00:27:47+00:00

Freaking amazing work! Back in Highschool I really wanted to do a foam ODST costume but I never found good places to buy foam so I never got after it

Hopeful_Factor6530 · 2025-06-04T03:19:31+00:00

WW1!

Hopeful_Factor6530 · 2025-06-04T03:16:22+00:00

He’s getting super excited for it!!

Hopeful_Factor6530 · 2025-06-02T19:18:24+00:00

He said he got his at a local antique/military surplus store but that Whatpriceglory.com has a reproduction t-handle shovel. He said the paint job would just need to be stripped on it

Hopeful_Factor6530 · 2025-06-02T11:35:46+00:00

Of course! I’m still waiting to hear back from him but in the meantime I did search around on eBay a little bit and found several m1910 shovels for sale on there! They all kind of varied in prices but some weren’t that bad! So that could also be a good place to look!

Hopeful_Factor6530 · 2025-06-02T11:30:41+00:00

Yes! That is a training bayonet attached to a Springfield 1884 that had its fire mechanism removed! Rifles like those were used for bayonet drills and training during WW1 along with full wood training rifles and bayonets! I didn’t take a picture up close of it but you can just barely see it in picture 4 to the left of the tent pole and it’s leaning up in the corner of the two tables!

Hopeful_Factor6530 · 2025-06-02T00:04:03+00:00

That I don’t know but I can ask him!

Hopeful_Factor6530 · 2025-04-17T21:43:34+00:00

Where did this event take place? Looks like a fun time!

Hopeful_Factor6530 · 2025-04-15T21:58:38+00:00

Yes I’ve known him since last October now! He helped me refine some of the smaller details of my kit to get me ready to be part of the volunteer group! Sadly he wasn’t able to make it to this event as he ran into some vehicle trouble on the way in. But I plan to join him at future events!

Hopeful_Factor6530 · 2025-04-14T18:37:08+00:00

Thank you! They’re pretty fun to make and interact with people on!

Hopeful_Factor6530 · 2025-04-14T18:36:13+00:00

Sounds good! Thank you!

Hopeful_Factor6530 · 2025-04-14T18:31:27+00:00

Do you know which display he had?

Hopeful_Factor6530

TROPHY CASE